THE NEWS IN IUUEF.
CONDENSED COMPILATION OF
CURRENT EVENTS.
Important News of A11 Kind Ilollvd
. Dovn and Arranged for Busy People.
All Supertluou Word Removed and
the Emnrc of the News Pratenred. "
Over 6.000 people are employed in the
. bo. y arils of Sonoma county.
The grand council of the Young Men's
Institute of California held its annual
session at Morysville.
Ormonde, the $150,000 stallion, the
property of Mr. McDonough. has arrived
safely at Menlo Park.
The Pioneers" society of San Francisco
has addpted resolutions condemning H.
H. Bancroft's History of California.
,' . ' Seattle Parlor Xo 1, Native Sons of
California, celebrated Admission day at
Seattle with a grand banquet.
The Breckinridge-Pollard breach of j
promise suit at Washington will prob- J
r ably never go into court. A settlement j
is reported to have been reached. i
; Chris Buckley, the famous blind poll- j
. - tician of San Francisco, with his wife
I and child, has arrived at Boston from
England. After a short stay in that
V city he will come to San Francisco.
The California state fair opened Mon
day at Sacramento. The attendance
was unusually large. The fair is said
V 7iaMat70 till ibo j.u..wa w au j
.V "particular. j
J Governor Markh:un has offered a re-j
V , ward of $300 for the arrest and convic-
tion of George Clark, alias James Bar
rett, the ex-convict who murdered
V Special Officer Charles V. Wetzel at
,, "' . United States District Attorney Denis
" of Los Angeles has received information
I. from Secretary Carlisle and Attorney
General Oinev that the government has
no run ds witn wnicn to aepon cninese
convicted under the Geary law.
Henry Irving and Ellen Terry opened
their American season at San Francisco.
A tremendous crowd attended the first
night. Mr. Irving and Miss Terry re
ceived a flattering reception from both
the audience and the critics,
i Dr. Johnson, who analyzed the con
' tents of the stomach of the late John
! Martin of Weaverville, CaL, reports
' j that no poison was found in the viscera.
: It was generally reported that Mrs.
Martin had poisoned her husband.
Gamblers who expected to make a
Ktalca at the state fair at Sacramento.
) are sorely disappointed. The managers
" I of the fair have shut down on all guinea
prohibited by the penal code. Sheriff
f O'Neill has prevented the games being
run in the city and the sports are dia
- gristed.
: At the Pan-American Medical con
ri gress at Washington Ernest Hart, editor
of the British Medical Journal, delivered
; - . u .i L ,1: 1
t an aauxess on iae euiius ui uirujmi
profession, in which he classed the
homeopaths with quacks and as men not
. to be recognized as doctors or to he con-
suited with.
Governor Markham of California has
sent a dispatch to Secretary Gresham
complaining that the Geary law has not
j been enforced, and says he cannot be
- held responsible for what may happen if
there is much longer delay. "The fact
t . it has not been enforced by those in
authority furnishes an excuse for those
r. ' lawlessly inclined to break the laws of
: onr own state, and that, too, with the
.-' sanction of many of our citizens."
-, , Saturday, Sept. 9, was California's
'it day at the World'Fair, and the attend-
ance was over 230,000. In comparison
j5 ' with the celebration days of other states
at the fair this number has been ex
- exceeded only by that of Illinois. Large
quantitiesof California fruit were given
awayoir cue uvro.--su-.-r. xc-z. -r-zrmu
livered the address of welcome, and
Senator White, as orator of the Any,
made a speech, giving a sketch of the
history of California.
The first license to mine by the hy
draulic process under the Camiuetti law
has been signed by the United States
debris commissioners of California, and
from now on the Eureka Lake and Yuba
Canal company con begin taking out
gold from their mine in Nevada connty.
This is the first contested case that has
come before the commissioners, and
powerful argument was brought to bear
by the anti-debris association against
granting the license.
The new Cunard Atlantic liner, the
Lncania, has arrived at New York, hav
ing made the fastest maiden voyago
across the Atlantic on record. This new
giantess is C2 feet 6 inches long over all,
43 feet deep to the upper deck, and has a
gross tonnage of 12.950. Her horse
power is 30.000. Each of the funnels is
160 feet high and 19 feet in diameter,
and, gigantic as are the engines, every
one of the Ixiilers. the engineers say.
could be packed into one of those stacks.
The lifeboats would make a fleet, and
the life-preservers stowed in different
parts of the ship would keep a regiment
from drowning. There is a banquet hall
where 430 can sit down to dinner.
Monday last was celebrated by the
workingmen throughout the country.
Labor Day exercises and parade were
held. The unemployed in the cities
paraded in large numbers. Governor
Altgeld addressed the workingmen at
Chicago. Referring to the present in
d as trial and commercial depression, he
said: "You are not responsible for this
condition. The men herj and in Eu
rope who call themselves statesmen have
inaugurated policies of which this is the
natural result. Considering the increase
in population, the increase in industries
and the commercial activuy of the
world, as well as the increased area
over which business is do;ie. there has
been in recent years a practical reduc
tion in the volume of the money of the
world from 33 to 40 per cent, and there
had to follow of necessity a shrinkage in
the value of property to a corresponding
extent. Combination and concentration
are the masters of this age. Let the
laborers learn from this and act accord
ingly." A dispatch from Adelaide. Australia,
states that the government is losing m
time in enforcing the provisions of the
Chinese restriction act. Vessels from
Hongkong and other eastern points are
not allowed to carry Chinese only in
proportion to the net tonnage instead of
gross tonnage, as formerly. A bill is
pending in the legislature providing for
a restriction act that shall apply to all
colored Asiatics.
Three judges of the connty conrt of
St. Clair county returned to Kansas City
and went back to jail for contempt of
the United States court for refusing to
order a tax levy to pay a bonded indebt
edness to construct a railroad never
built. They were released from jail on
furlough last spring, pending election to
compromise the matter. The proposi
tion was defeated. The judges will re
main in jail until 1895, when their sen
tence will be completed
' The fight' against the Chinese has be
gun at Redlonds, but according to law.
Deputy United States Marshal Faris ar
rested seven Chinese on warrants issued
by Judge Ross underthe Geary law, and
five more warrants are out. Laborers
from the ranches in the vicinity were
selected. These 12 warrants are the first
of 170 asked for by the citizens of Red
lands. More will be issued as fast as
the cases can be tried in the United
States courts.
Captain J. B.' Adams of Massachu
setts has been chosen coiniuaiiiler-tii-chief
of the Grand Army of iiie lit-public
The police at Cleveland, O., had to
club the Bohemians, IIiingari:t:is and
Pol who were preventing laborers from
working.
Hamilton Fish, secretary of state under
Grant, and o.le of te greatest statesmen
of the century, died suddenly at New
York.
Major Muirhead has arrived at Vic
toria, from Englard, to superintend the
construction of the fortifications at Es
I'.iimalt. Massachusetts Prohibitionists have se
I cted a state ticket upon the usual plat
iorui. The Virginia Prohibitionists did
the same thing.
The Woman's Board of Missions of the
Pacific Coast met at Santa Cruz the
other day. The board was organized
20 years ago at Santa Cruz.
Thomas O'Doimell has sued the Oak
hind and Haywards Electric Railroad
company for $"0,000 damages. O'Don
nell's 13-year-old son was killed by an
electric car.
The raisin-growers, in session at
Fresno, divided on the rite to be paid
laborers tin" season. White men will
p-t $1.25 per day and Chinese $1. White
labor will be given the preference.
The United States troops have been
forced to use fires to nnearth the
sooners" on the Cherokee Strip. A
number have been captured in this way
and their names taken.
in the mail race between the Ameri
can line steamship New York and the
White Star line steamship Teutonic,
ended at London, the New York won by
niore thin three hours.
At the SuuJay-school congress at St.
Louis a plan was adopted for the appoint
ment of workers for Japan and south
eastern Europe. The next convention
will lie held in 1S.
The city engin-vr of San Francisco has
submitted plans for a sewage system for
the city. He recommends that the
supervisors at once provide tusuls for the
work and give work to the unemployed
thousands now in this city.
J. A. Rounds, aged 22. the son of a
well known citizen of Portland, haslieen
arrested on a charge of attempted black
mail. Yonn& Rounds wrote, letters to
several prominent society women de
manding (50. and threatened to make
public scandals about them.
Mill way Plaisa- ce is agog over a story
that Miss Jenny Hammond of Bellaire.
O., and Abdul Lati?f. the manager of
the Turkish village, have fallen in Live
and will be married. They first met
while the young lady was visiting the
fair.
A syndicate, called the Lake Superior
Consolidated Iron Mines, luis secured
control of nine-tenths of all the iron ore
production in the United Slates, with a
cash capital of $:W,0OO.OtK) and a reserve
of $100,000,000 more in aggregate prop
erty. Yhe Russian Prince Galitzau. who has
just arrived at Victoria. B. C. from
Japan, will tell the New York Geo
graphical society next month about the
religion of an exclusive people he dis
covered on his travels from Leiiseteng to
Karukcsh.
Henceforth no meinlx-rof the National
Union of Brewery Workers can le a
member of the militia of any state, and
members of the union now enrolled in
the state guard must get out at oace.
and no member of the citizen soldiery of
the country can be admitted to the
union.
Two-thirds of tho banks which sus
pended throughout the country during
the recent panic have resumed business
or will do so shortly. In the great East
ern manufacturing centers workshops
and factories are being reopened. Money
is getting easier, the premiums on cur
rency in New York has disappeared, and
the prospects for a good fall season ore
imt)tviE,Z.
RECORD OF CRIMES AND ACCIDENTS.
The Sells-Rentfrew circus train w
wrecked on the Nevada narrow-gang'-near
Colfax, CaL Two men were killed.
The 10-year-old son of H. A. Lammers
of Portland was caught in machinery
and so seriously injured that he died.
Cashier M. J. Buffer ling of the Bank
of MinneapoHs shot himself dead. It is
supposed the deed was the result of
brooding over the action of Paying Teller
Scheig, who absconded with $15,000 of
the bank's money. Bofferding's accounts
are straight.
Samuel Noble, a young man employed
in a slaughter-house at Davisville. CaL.
fell into a vat of scalding water and was
badly burned, the skin slipping from the
flesh about his shoulders and back. His
injuries are not regarded as fatal, but
his agony is something terrible.
NEWS FROM ABROAD.
Prince Bismarck is very ill at Kissin
gcn. The Irish home rule bill in the house
of lords was defeated bv an overwhelm-
j ing majority the vote being 41D against
; the bill and41 for it.
I , Gladstone lias announced that the
, government his decided at the close of
j the debato on supply to adjourn parlia
ment uniu govern Der.
A party of disbanded troops in Nica
ragua captured a convoy of government
treasure, killed all the escort and fled
with the money $ lV.00O into Hon
duras. Active hostilities have begun in Ger
man East Africa with the natives. The
Cennan forces stormed and captured
the fortified camp of the Saltan at Kili
manjaro. The French government his a-rred to
call a conference of members of the
I Latin Union in Paris to decide the ques
tion of the nationalization of fractional
silver currency.
Work lias begun on the finest hotel in
the world, on the site of her majesty's
theatre, in Haymarket and Pall Mall.
London. The site is a magnificent one.
and the building is to cast $.000.000.
It will be built by American capitalists.
A night clerk in a drug store at Chi-
! cago was attacked bv two men. shot in
the mouth and beaten alout the lierd
with billies until he became insensiiile.
The men then took the money in the
cash register and $20 from the clerk.
The United States Marine hospiial at
Port Townsend was destroyed by fire,
caused by a defective law. Loss, $3,500;
no insurance. The patients were re
moved to temimrary quarters pending
the ccnslructiou of a new building.
John Stockwell was stab!ed in the
breast by Dan Sullivan at the San Jose
racetrack, and his recovery is doubtful.
The two men had come from Sacramento
with some horses, and the crime is said
to le the result of a drunken quarrel.
Sullivan was arrested.
Hall Miller, alias James Miller, son of
Joaquin Miller, the poet, was released
from San Quentin after serving a term
of IS months for stage robbery in Men
docino county. After leaving the prison
he was again arrested and taken to
Oregon to serve out his unexpired term
He was serving a sentence of six years
for burglary in the tregon state peni
tentiary when he escaped.
Advuvs by the steamer Emprwss of
China state that a Japanese emigration
stock company has been organized in
Yokohama, which proposes to procure
and dispatch to foreign places farmers,
artisans and fishermen, who shall remain
under the control of the com pan v, and
thus promote the welfare and power of
the state. The company will purchase
desirable land on the Pacific Coast,
United States and Canada, and send out
emigrants, who shall send their products
j to Japajj to sell on commission.